BLU for Duty Finder and Raids! Show your support!

[Duskane]

i just find it somewhat uninspiring of them just reusing skills enemies already have
i understand the point of Blue is to farm monster skills

but it would have been a good opportunity to reference other monster attacks that are not in this game for blue like Goblin punch so people who did play use Blue in FF5,11 etc etc can be like "i get this reference"

[Zafran]

BLU for duty finders and raids.
Anything else is unacceptable in an MMO
We asked for a BLU job, not a BLU feature.

Anything less than level 80 cap in 5.0 is ridiculous no matter how fun the BLU content is

[Blueyes]

Anything less than level 80 cap in 5.0 is ridiculous no matter how fun the BLU content is

The sad truth of the matter is that this is unlikely the happen even if SE were to change their stance on Blue Mage.

Let's be honest. When you consider how side content such as this is usually released, SE probably doesn't have level 60 content for Blue Mage scheduled for release until 5.1 at the earliest. There's no way that Blue Mage will be ready to participate in level 80 content alongside every other job by the time 5.0 launches.

In addition to the content that must be created, a balance overhaul will also be required since the job wasn't created with balance in mind. And when you consider how long it takes for SE to properly address issues like Lilies for White Mage, realistically speaking, we probably won't see the Limited titled removed from Blue Mage until 6.0 since SE likes to pair up significant overhauls with the release of an expansion. And that's if SE changes their stance.

For those hoping to see Blue Mage become a full-fledged job, be prepared to keep this going for a long time.

[azura84]

It's dangerous to go alone, here taaaaake this Ala Mhigan Earrings~

[Skyskip]

This is sadly not the case. During liveletter you were able to see that you can pick 20 of 49 skills.
Meaning, even with level cap increase and skill increase to lets guess 100 different blue mage skills, you would still be capped. That term hence is not right.

Ps: i still dont get people going this far and cancel their sub, show off in the OF, to 'influence' the dev team. Its kinda a childish act but whatever, 5.0 story looks amazing!

Childish? Choosing not to do business with a company due to displeasure is one of the very few powers a customer has. There's nothing childish about that. That's literally capitalism.

[Arkdra]

Pictured: Typical gamer boycott

[Adiart]

Ps: i still dont get people going this far and cancel their sub, show off in the OF, to 'influence' the dev team. Its kinda a childish act but whatever, 5.0 story looks amazing!

Well, taking your business elsewhere if you are displeased with the direction the game is going in is not something I would consider to really be childish. The childish way would be to complain on the forums without acting on your complains.

[CaptainLagbeard]

I kind of doubt any change will happen to blue mage, but if there's enough negative feedback they might not do another Limited Job again... It's not like they haven't dropped ideas in the past, certainly not ones like caster/healer shields.


Edit: Also, if anyone can read them moonrunes, what's the Japanese side of the community saying about Blue Mage, since Square probably listens to them more than the English side...

[Adiart]

From what I've seen from someone translating some comments on reddit, the reaction is pretty similar. Split almost down the middle between excitement for new content and disappointment at BLU being relegated to side activities. (Apparently, quite a few call it a minigame on the Japanese forums too).

[Stanelis]

In addition to the content that must be created, a balance overhaul will also be required since the job wasn't created with balance in mind.

So basically, now it is ok for a game developer to sell a game and content in which jobs aren't created with balance in mind ?